7 comments:

Hello Mr. James Are you working on any affordable housing for the middle class DTD also needs permanent families in DTD.

Dallas is already known as a place only for the rich and poor. I know Habitat is working on Dream Dallas, but for DTD to be diverse your going to have to have people who make to much,yet make to little and yes I know DISD is a big part of it.

Cody, thanks for asking. Yes, we will have a very robust conceirge team. We employ a "housing first" model that requires residents to simply live as cooperative, "good tenants." There are not a lot of pre-admission requirements and the projects we develop are permanent housing. The affordable units, 150 in this project, will be for low-income working people. Fifty (50) additional units will be for homeless persons. We will offer all sorts of services, just about whatever a resident needs. Our team will work out a service plan and residents will know from day one that they have friends in the building. In addition to this, we will have 24-7 security and over 30CDM employees will work in the buiilding all week, and some of us will live there. John Greenan, the Executive Director of our CDC, is buying one of the 15th floor condo units.

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